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Author : Theresa Ann Case
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781603443401
Author : Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Inspection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : MINN:31951D001479291
Author : Missouri. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015079021120
Author : Charles Postel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429946926
An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest resulted in experiments in collective action, as millions joined leagues and unions. In Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1886, Charles Postel demonstrates how taking stock of these movements forces us to rethink some of the central myths of American history. Despite a nationwide push for equality, egalitarian impulses oftentimes clashed with one another. These dynamics get to the heart of the great paradox of the fifty years following the Civil War and of American history at large: Waves of agricultural, labor, and women’s rights movements were accompanied by the deepening of racial discrimination and oppression. Herculean efforts to overcome the economic inequality of the first Gilded Age and the sexual inequality of the late-Victorian social order emerged alongside Native American dispossession, Chinese exclusion, Jim Crow segregation, and lynch law. Now, as Postel argues, the twenty-first century has ushered in a second Gilded Age of savage socioeconomic inequalities. Convincing and learned, Equality explores the roots of these social fissures and speaks urgently to the need for expansive strides toward equality to meet our contemporary crisis.
Author : Thomas Aiello
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000852684
This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself. Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass protests that occurred as a result in 2020. However, the problem of police brutality has been consistent throughout American history. This volume traces its history back to Antebellum slavery, through the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the two world wars and the twentieth century, to the present day. This handbook is designed to create a generally holistic picture of the phenomenon of police brutality in the United States in all of its major lived forms and confronts a wide range of topics including: Race Ethnicity Gender Police reactions to protest movements (particularly as they relate to the counterculture and opposition to the Vietnam War) Legal and legislative outgrowths against police brutality The representations of police brutality in popular culture forms like film and music The role of technology in publicizing such abuses, and the protest movements mounted against it The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America will provide a vital reference work for students and scholars of American history, African American history, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, and Africana studies.
Author : Leon Fink
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812292039
From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing nation established economic, political, and cultural entanglements with forces overseas. Local strikes in manufacturing, urban transit, and construction placed labor issues front and center in political campaigns, legislative corridors, church pulpits, and newspapers of the era. The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and institutions that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century. Presenting a new twist on central themes of American labor and working-class history, Leon Fink examines how the American conceptualization of free labor played out in iconic industrial strikes, and how "freedom" in the workplace became overwhelmingly tilted toward individual property rights at the expense of larger community standards. He investigates the legal and intellectual centers of progressive thought, situating American policy actions within an international context. In particular, he traces the development of American socialism, which appealed to a young generation by virtue of its very un-American roots and influences. The Long Gilded Age offers both a transnational and comparative look at a formative era in American political development, placing this tumultuous period within a worldwide confrontation between the capitalist marketplace and social transformation.
Author : Donna T. Haverty-Stacke,Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441135469
Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history. Labor History has recently undergone something of a renaissance that has yet to be documented. The book chronicles this rejuvenation with contributions from new scholars as well as established names. Rethinking U.S. Labor History focuses particularly on those issues of pressing interest for today's labor historians: the relationship of class and culture; the link between worker's experience and the changing political economy; the role that gender and race have played in America's labor history; and finally, the transnational turn.
Author : Ruth Alice Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Strike, 1885-1886
ISBN : WISC:89058503921
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1331956765
Excerpt from The Official History of the Great Strike of 1886: On the Southwestern Railway System This history may be of value to the members of the General Assembly and others who are studying the labor problems now monopolizing so much of public attention. It is simply a compilation of historical facts, official correspondence and important data obtained from the most trustworthy sources. It is intended to be perfectly fair and impartial, and where deductions are drawn at all they are only natural and logical conclusions. As to the merits of the contest between the Knights of Labor and the railways, the reader must form his own opinion. This, with unimportant eliminations and additions, is the report prepared for the National Bureau of Labor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Frontier and Pioneer Life
ISBN : UCBK:C098755023
Author : David Omar Stowell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Grève des cheminots, États-Unis, 1877
ISBN : 9780252074776
New perspectives on a pivotal moment in U.S. history
Author : David O. Stowell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780252056352
A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was America's first national strike and the first major strike against the railroad industry. In some places, non-railroad workers also abandoned city businesses, creating one of the nation's first general strikes. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers, the Great Strikes of 1877 transformed the nation's political landscape, shifting the primary political focus from Reconstruction to labor, capital, and the changing role of the state. Probing essays by distinguished historians explore the social, political, regional, and ethnic landscape of the Great Strikes of 1877: long-term effects on state militias and national guard units; ethnic and class characterization of strikers; pictorial representations of poor laborers in the press; organizational strategies employed by railroad workers; participation by blacks; violence against Chinese immigrants; and the developing tension between capitalism and racial equality in the United States. Contributors: Joshua Brown, Steven J. Hoffman, Michael Kazin, David Miller, Richard Schneirov, David O. Stowell, and Shelton Stromquist.
Author : Frank William Taussig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNP35I
Author : Thad Cassius Parr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89089880280
Author : Stephen A. Dupree
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1585446416
Appointed by President Lincoln to command the Gulf Department in November 1862, Nathaniel Prentice Banks was given three assignments, one of which was to occupy some point in Texas. He was told that when he united his army with Grant’s, he would assume command of both. Banks, then, had the opportunity to become the leading general in the West—perhaps the most important general in the war. But he squandered what successes he had, never rendezvoused with Grant’s army, and ultimately orchestrated some of the greatest military blunders of the war. “Banks’s faults as a general,” writes author Stephen A. Dupree, “were legion.” The originality of Planting the Union Flag in Texas lies not just in the author’s description of the battles and campaigns Banks led, nor in his recognition of the character traits that underlay Banks’s decisions. Rather, it lies in how Dupree synthesizes his studies of Banks’s various actions during his tour of duty in and near Texas to help the reader understand them as a unified campaign. He skillfully weaves together Banks’s various attempts to gain Union control of Texas with his other activities and shines the light of Banks’s character on the resulting events to help explain both their potential and their shortcomings. In the end, readers will have a holistic understanding of Banks’s “appalling” failure to win Texas and may even be led to ask how the post–Civil War era might have been different had he been successful. This fine study will appeal to Civil War buffs and fans of military and Texas history.
